AbstractDiplomacy was a principal site of linguistic and cultural exchange in the early modern Persianate world. Focusing on the karārnāmā or agreement, this paper explores how a repertoire of Marathi and Persian documentary genres, binding formulae, and graphic procedures enabled legal, commercial, and diplomatic transactions in eighteenth-century western India. The exchange of written agreements facilitated interstate relations as well as profit-sharing contractual arrangements between individuals. Despite their centrality to interactions between European and South Asian polities, these instruments met with limited success in establishing rights to property under the legal regime of the East India Company-state and instead acquired new functions in colonial revenue administration.

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马拉塔帝国的政治交易：朋友之间的协议，1795 年

摘要 外交是早期现代波斯世界语言和文化交流的主要场所。本文以 karārnāmā 或协议为重点，探讨了马拉地语和波斯语纪录片类型、约束公式和图形程序如何在 18 世纪印度西部实现法律、商业和外交交易。书面协议的交换促进了州际关系以及个人之间的利润分享合同安排。尽管它们在欧洲和南亚政体之间的互动中处于核心地位，但这些文书在建立东印度公司国家法律制度下的财产权方面取得的成功有限，反而在殖民税收管理中获得了新的职能。